I'm originally from Boody, Illinois (a little town in Central Illinois near
Decatur). I lived in Carbondale, Illinois for about 5 years, then bounced
around between Evansville, Indiana, Mt. Carmel, Illinois, and a couple
other places not worth mentioning, before settling in Springfield, Illinois
(back in Central Illinois) for almost 3 years. In 2000, I bought a
house and moved to Fairview Heights, Illinois, a
small town near St. Louis, Missouri. I am currently
self-employed again (whee!) doing
consulting, selling systems, that sort of thing. (As the current
maintainer of the
Linux Hardware
Compatibility HOWTO, I like to think I know a thing or two about
building a Linux box.)

Most of my time is spent doing something computer-related. The users groups
take a significant portion of my time. The rest is divided between work and
my own projects. About the only non-computer
thing I've been doing is spending time with my wife
(as of June 7, 1997) Kara, our daughter
Emma, and our cats...

I finally realized that I wasn't updating my projects page, so I decided to
throw together a page of stuff I've compiled, hacked
on, or written. I'm actively updating it as I write this
(Sun Jul 19 18:24:45 CDT 1998), so let me know if anything there interests
you.

Unfortunately, I had to pull my resume, since random recruiters just
couldn't understand why I wouldn't want to be called in the middle of the
day on my cell phone at work to hear about some job in BFE (usually
somewhere in California). (Don't get me wrong. I like recruiters. I
wouldn't be where I'm at today without them.) If you really want to know
more about my experience and such, drop
me an email.